slur
• verb (slurred, slurring) 1 speak indistinctly. 2 pass over (a fact or aspect) so as to conceal or minimize it. 3 Music perform (a group of two or more notes) legato. 4 chiefly US make insinuations or allegations about. • noun 1 an insinuation or allegation. 2 an indistinct utterance. 3 Music a curved line indicating that notes are to be slurred. — ORIGIN originally in the sense thin mud , later to smear : of unknown origin.
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